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Family Support Provider/Peer Support Specialist and How They Can Help

Speaker(s):

Tanya Fongemie

Bethann Berry, MA, QMHP

Presentation: Ms. Fongemie will share her personal story, describing the struggles she went through and how she is able to use those experiences to help others. This presentation will provide an overview of the roles that a Family Support Provider and a Peer Support Specialist may have in an organization and how they can help others.

Objectives:

  • Share personal story and life’s obstacles (told by Ms. Fongemie)
  • Describe the Family Support Provider role
  • Describe the Peer Support Specialist role
  • Discuss how the FSP and PSS can help others

Slides and Handouts:

Berry_Spring Con. PP2

 

 

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Self-Care Room Presentation | Mindfulness Meditation: An Easy and Effective Self-Care Skill | Limited Seating

Please note that seating for presentations in the Self-Care Room (Parasol I) are limited to 25 seats. This presentation will last from 2:00pm – 3:00pm.

Speaker(s):

Chun-Zi Peng, PhD

Presentation: Through mindfulness meditation, we will find inner peace and befriend our discomfort (physical or mental) to be healthier and happier.

Objectives:

  • Articulate the definition and myths of mindfulness meditation
  • Provide scientific evidence for how mindfulness meditation works
  • Guide audience through meditation to be inspired to learn more on meditation for self-care purposes or to integrate into their practice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Beyond Awareness: Changing systems to reverse the overdose epidemic

Speaker(s):

Ned Presnall, MSW, LCSW and Robert Riley II, MAADC II

Presentation: For at least a decade, we have been training front-line substance abuse counselors in the science of addiction and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT). Many counselors have come to understand that effective treatment for opioid dependence starts with medication. Yet, lack of access to maintenance pharmacotherapy remains a major contributor to our rising overdose rate. This presentation will look at the system-level barriers to treatment access and propose effective and cost-effective models of treatment that can be used to improve access to treatment on a large scale. The presenter will argue that even without additional financial resources to fight OUD we could be using the resources we already have to begin reversing the overdose epidemic.

Objectives:

  • Explain which approaches to OUD are best supported by research.
  • Review cost-effective and scalable models of OUD treatment with potential to reverse the opioid epidemic, e.g. models that can be implemented in primary care.
  • Describe the barriers to implementing these models and initial strategies to overcome them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Humans of Behavioral Health: Real People – Real Ethics *Ethics Hours

Speaker(s):

Mark Shields, MEd, LPC,  Scott Breedlove, MS and Timothy Rudder, MSW

Presentation: This session will identify ethical challenges that social workers, counselors and recovery support professionals face and present methods to encourage the development of an ethics supportive workplace that adheres to each disciplines codes of ethics.

Objectives:

  • Realize the importance of creating an agency culture that is supportive of open and honest communication from staff regarding their ethical challenges.
  • Review the process by which a supervisor and staff clarifies their specific job functions and the ethical considerations related to various staff positions. (Social Worker, Counselor, Peer, Community Support Specialist).
  • Express the responsibility of supervisor and supervisee two-way communication regarding professional self-care and ethics association codes review to minimize the risk of ethical violations.

Slides:

Shields_2017 STI Ethics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Past, Present and Future Supports for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

Speaker(s):

Cla Stearns, PhD

Presentation: The presentation will describe emerging trends in the supports available for individuals with developmental disabilities, including the national push for true integration into the community.  These trends will be presented in the context of historical attitudes and service delivery models.  The recent federal emphasis on elimination of coercion, expectations of participation in the workplace, and the advancement of opportunity for a typical life will be discussed.  The presentation will also address the reality of co-occurring disorders and the increased emphasis on individuality of supports based on the individual’s interests, abilities, and desires.  Future trends, including a move from diagnosis-based services to function-based services will also be discussed.

Objectives:

  • Explain the trajectory of service provision from institutional congregate care through distributed congregate care and on to individual supports provided in the general community based on personal interests, goals, and functional ability.
  • Encourage of a view of supports that moves past diagnosis-based approaches to one based on the interaction between an individual and the community environment.
  • Recognize the fundamental right of all individuals to the opportunity for a typical life and what this concept means for the traditional view of supports.

Slides:

Stearns_Past Present and Future Supports for Individuals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Welcoming the LGBTQ population into your Professional Scope

Speaker(s):

Shelly Farnan, PhD

Presentation: This presentation is designed to increase Cultural Competence in working with the LGBTQ Population in an environment that is dynamic, supportive, genuine, and fun. The needs of LGBTQ patients and their families are often overlooked, neglected, or minimized by providers. Often this oversight is rooted in lack of training, lack of experience, and provider comfort level. The goal of this training is to portray realistic representations of the multifaceted LGBTQ experience to promote a realistic understanding and develop comfort and confidence in recognizing and meeting unique needs. Participants who attend this training will gain knowledge, skill, ability, and interest in working with the LGBTQ population. This presentation offers opportunities to obtain the language providers need to respect and empower patients, to become an inclusive practice, to build confidence in developing relationships necessary to nurture healing and growth, and to obtain useful LGBTQ resource information.

Objectives:

  • Describe the importance of incorporating sexual orientation and gender identity into the professional relationship
  • Describe healthcare needs and barriers to care for the LGBTQ population
  • Identify Best Practices in creating a safe and welcoming environment for LGBTQ people and in treating LGBTQ patients

Slides:

Farnan_2017 Spring Institute

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Excellence Algorithm – Bringing Mental Health and Recovery Skills/Values into Key HR Decisions

Speaker(s):

Felix Vincenz, PhD

Presentation:  Managing human resources is an ongoing challenge in any non-profit or state-operated agency, particularly given the challenges associated with recruitment and retention of qualified and committed staff.  This presentation speaks to a different strategy for dealing with the management of human error, recognizing the value associated with coaching and consoling employees as a key retention and workforce development strategy, embedded with an overall commitment to performance improvement efforts at every level of the organization.  The presentation includes decisional matrices and flowcharts used to guide decision-makers within the organization as to when to utilize coaching, discipline, and/or performance improvement efforts, and an abbreviated overview of a day long presentation to key supervisory, managerial, and executive level staff.  A key value is the recognition and implicit commitment to the possibility of recovery and change in our workforce, as well as our clients.

Objectives:

  • Apply behavioral health approaches to the mental health workforce.
  • Develop new skills necessary for the retention and development of the workforce.
  • Review how to improve stability and retention of the workforce, within an overall commitment to performance improvement.

Slides:

Vincenz_Excellence Algorithm

Vincenz-Employee Related Negative Outcomes

Vincenz-Discipline Process

Vincenz-Discipline Decisions (including Termination)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Report on Implementation of the Emotion Regulation Skills System for Cognitively Challenged Clients

Speaker(s):

Nina Chastain, MSW, LCSW

Presentation: Dialectical Behavior Therapy has been proven to be a treatment of choice for clients with severe emotional dysregulation problems. However, for clients who also have intellectual disabilities, the treatment is not always as successful.  Julie F. Brown, MSW, PhD, Director of Program Development at The Justice Resource Institute’s Integrated Clinical Services in Rhode Island, developed a DBT-Informed Skills System that addresses difficulties intellectually disabled clients face. She recognized that intellectually disabled clients “require an adequate, synthesized framework or system to teach skills to clients in a form that they can understand, apply, and generalize.”  Dr. Brown developed The Skills System over the course of many years of working with her own clients and providing comprehensive DBT.  Three key elements were integrated: (1) the work of James Gross, PhD., in emotion regulation; (2) cognitive load theory (Sweller, 2010); and (3) ongoing collaboration with her own clients.  Ms. Brown ended up with a Skills System framework that helps clients know which skill to choose and how many skills to implement given his or her level of emotion in each situation.  This presentation will highlight some of the main differences of the skills and the System tools that Julie Brown carefully and effectively developed.  The participants will hear how cognitively-challenged clients in a residential psychiatric hospital setting who had previously been treated using traditional, comprehensive DBT encountered and reacted to the new DBT-Informed Skills System.  The lessons learned from implementing the model will also be shared along with data highlighting important areas of change for the clients.

Objectives:

  • Review some of the fundamental knowledge of behavioral health and disability.
  • This training describes in a nutshell established approaches of DBT and the new treatment of DBT-informed therapy for cognitively challenged clients.
  • Provide an overview of the Skills system in order for learners to see if this treatment approach would work for their population.
  • Describe how complex emotion regulation challenges are broken down into manageable problems using a series of steps that people at many different skill levels can apply.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Compassion Fatigue: How Caring for Others Impacts the Professional and the Organization

Speaker(s):

Rachel Jones, MEd, LPC

Presentation:  Caring for others is hard work. Healthcare providers and human service professionals can sometimes grow tired with the demands of the job and exposure to trauma. This presentation will help professionals learn to recognize the warning signs of Compassion Fatigue and how it impacts their personal and work life. It will also help those in Administration/Management recognize how Compassion Fatigue impacts the workforce and organization. Learning how to change attitudes about stress and developing self-care plans can make a difference. Participants will walk away with ideas about how to create a culture in their organization that promotes awareness of Compassion Fatigue and strives to help employees achieve Compassion Satisfaction.

Objectives:

  • Discuss how the support that professionals provide to clients and families with behavioral health, substance use, trauma and disabilities needs impacts their personal and work life.
  • Site recognize warning signs and symptoms of Compassion Fatigue and understand approaches and techniques to create Compassion Satisfaction and wellness.
  • Recognize the impact Compassion Fatigue has on an organization and understand approaches and strategies to support employees that experience compassion fatigue and create a workplace culture of Compassion Satisfaction.

Slides:

Jones_Compassion Fatigue Training

Jones-Self-Care Plan

Jones-Organizational Self-Care Plan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Recovery Works

Speaker(s):

Christine White, LPN, CMPS

Presentation:  This presentation will present facts from Christine’s road to recovery. She has BPD, severe anxiety, OCD and Bi-Polar along with manic depression. She will give symptoms of each illness, meds that were effective and non-effective along with treatment approaches. Some treatment approaches she will discuss are therapy 1:1, group therapy, DBT and Shock treatments.

Objectives:

  • Identify concepts and emotions while dealing hands on with a mental health diagnosis
  • Explain and give rationale towards different behaviors associated with mental illness
  • Describe skills that can be utilized to assist with management of a behavioral issues